Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun upper_volta

1 sense of upper volta

Sense 1
Burkina Faso, Upper Volta -- (a desperately poor landlocked country in western Africa; was formerly Upper Volta under French rule but gained independence in 1960)
       INSTANCE OF=> country, state, land -- (the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries")